What Are You Optimistic About?

by John Brockman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Brian Greene, Jared M. Diamond, Steven Pinker, John Horgan, John McCarthy, Sam Harris, Chris Anderson, Martin Rees, Carlo Rovelli, Daniel C. Dennett, Andrew Brown, Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Clay Shirky, J. Craig Venter, Douglas Rushkoff, Anton Zeilinger, Leonard Susskind, Geoffrey Miller, Marcelo Gleiser, Martin Elias Pete Seligman, Freeman J. Dyson, Jerry Adler, Gino Segrè, Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, Robert Shapiro, Frank Wilczek, Paul J. Steinhardt, Lee Smolin, Lisa Randall, Charles Seife, Karl Sabbagh, Alexander Vilenkin, Max Tegmark

The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edg…